The Largely Ignored Health Care Elephant

As I said before, there are two major issues in health care that need reform: the large number of people who are uninsured and the much larger number of people who have insurance but their health care needs are not being met.

Why have we inserted an element into our health care system whose only motivation is to maximize profit by providing as little care as allowed by the law? And since disputes about coverage are generally interpreted under contract law, and insurance contracts are generally not negotiated between two equal parties, it’s the worst possible system if your objective is actually to provide care.

Let’s have a decent conversation about health care reform in this country without screaming hysterically about the bogeyman of “socialized medicine.” There’s really no other way to put it. What we have now is awful and immoral.